Wine 0.9.60 released – large patch trend continues

The latest version of Wine release.

The Wine community brings us the second largest update of the year and is gaining some serious momentum. Some of this momentum can be accredited to the upcoming 1.0 release in June, in time for the 15th anniversary of Wine. May 4th is mentioned as the date for the 1.0 code freeze in the latest newsletter.

As usual, with this release, many improvements across the board have been added. Notable updates include: additional language support, theme support, improved system tray icon display, and quartz audio fixes. Various Direct3D fixes abound. More than 12 bugs each day (on average) have been marked fixed since 0.9.59—an impressive feat, considering that the list of bugs targeted for 1.0 has dwindled to a paltry total of 65.

The popular and highly recommended Winetricks script for installing many third-party enhancements (fonts, runtime libraries, and more) has been updated as well.

Wine 0.9.60 can be downloaded from the download page for any Linux distribution, and additional details can be found in the release notes.